Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
INDIRA GANDHIIn any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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